You know, the victims of the Sept. 11 tragedy. Only, in a way, you could say Shruti did it first.

Sources very close to Shruti say the 16-year-old Carnatic musician dedicated her Sept. 15 arangetram (essentially her professional music debut) to those who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks.

Carnatic music (in case you don't already know) is a very hip form of Indian classical music that dates back 4,000 years (pre-disco).

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Shruti is said to be master of both vocals and the violin (played Indo style, against the knee). Apparently, though, "two-in-one" concerts like the one she gave Sept. 15 at Rice University are pretty rare.

Being Shruti, however, she pulled the whole thing off fabulously -- even when her violinist (for the vocal part) couldn't get to Houston because of the disruption in air travel.

Word is that her violin guru (that's kind of like a teacher), Shri Vittal Ramamurthy, accompanied her instead and poof -- instant Carnatic success!

Yolanda has just received a copy of a song Emily Tucker's dad wrote the day she came home from Jersey Village High School following the attacks.

It's called 9/11, and echoes the eerie feeling Emily and a lot of her classmates had writing that date on their schoolwork, knowing that something terrible was happening but not really able to talk about it.

The song goes like this:

On a Tuesday in September/The dawn broke clear and dry/When suddenly 10,000 cried/From terror in the sky.